You know what it looks like… but what is it called?
TAKE THE QUIZ“the tide”
The following 8 entries include the term the tide.
acceleration of the tide
: priming of the tide
lag of the tide
: the interval by which the time of high or low water falls behind the mean time in the 2d and 4th quarters of the moon —opposed to priming of the tide
priming of the tide
: acceleration of the time of high or low water in the 1st and 3d quarters of the moon —opposed to lag of the tide
retardation of the tide
retard of the tide
: the interval between the moon's transit at which a tide originates and advent of the tide itself which is not principally due to the transit immediately preceding but to a transit which has occurred some time before compare lunitidal interval
go/swim with/against the tide
idiom: to think or behave in a way that agrees/disagrees with how most other people think or behave.
stem the tide
idiom: to stop something from continuing and increasing —+ of
the tide turns
idiom—used to say that someone's luck is changed
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Merriam-Webster unabridged
